Favourite Arena Rock Band

Rush and Van Halen were both late additions to the poll following suggestions that they be included.

When I think "arena rock," Van Halen fits the definition better than just about any other band.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: You put the poll again in the wrong section of the forum. Lol Maybe the Arena Rock bands are playing in the wrong arena. Non prog topics and polls go in the general music. You are not a newbie anymore, you got no excuse.   Many of the bands in the poll ARE Prog-related though, which is why I posted it in the Prog Polls forum.

What's next, a cock rock poll in Prog Polls?

The Prog lounges are intended particularly for music deemed Prog. If this were for Prog Polls, then this topic would be more appropriately titled Favourite Progressive Rock Arena Band and would focus on bands included in our Prog categories.

When placing a poll in Prog Polls, it should be Prog-focused (according to the prog categories we have in prog Archives) and the majority should be included in Prog-proper categories.    If you think your poll is more on the prog-related side, rather than acts included in Prog categories focused, then please place it in General Music Discussions.

We also have a Proto-Prog and Prog-Related Lounge, which in intended for acts included in PA's Proto-Prog and Prog-Related categories, but it does not allow polls (even if it did, this would still fit General Music Discussions). Basically, if in doubt, music polls are probably better placed in General Music Discussions. Since Arena Rock (as a kind of genre which relates to forms of AOR or melodic rock) is not particularly a progressive rock phenomenon, General Music Discussions would seem more obvious to me. In another sense, Prog bands that did great spectacle and played big arenas such as Pink Floyd and ELP are arena rock (well, both have also also made AORish, in terms of a genre, music as well).

Anyway, what is Arena Rock is debatable, but that this poll is better suited to General Music Discussions is much less-so. In fact, General Music Discussions is where it should have been placed. I do wish people generally would put more thought into where they place their topics. Anyway, no vote, I'm not a fan of arena rock despite enjoying various bands who have played very large venues. That said, perhaps I could vote for ELO since I like albums by that band, and I like Toto with Eno's Dune soundtrack, but even the term arena rock fills me with some sense of revulsion.

Edited by Logan - October 31 2019 at 12:39

Voted for Rush , but I grew up on this stuff so I like a lot of these bands.( Boston, Toto,  Kansas, Asia, ELO, Heart, Queen, Van Halen....)

Edited by Argo2112 - October 31 2019 at 10:46

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Barbu wrote: Boston! Frank Zappa! For some reason, I thought you were going to suggest I include Frank Zappa in the poll.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I voted for Styx. I don't really consider Rush to be arena rock and Kansas only has one foot in that door. Styx are the closest that also have prog elements imo.   I don't think of Rush as being an Arena Rock band either. I only included Rush in the poll following TwoSteves suggestion.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I voted for Styx. I don't really consider Rush to be arena rock and Kansas only has one foot in that door. Styx are the closest that also have prog elements imo.

Boston!

twosteves wrote: for me this would easily be RUSH---if they were on the list!

Psychedelic Paul wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Off the top of my head the only band I feel is missing is Van Halen. Good job with the list otherwise though. I'll have to think about this. Maybe you can edit it(actually I know you can because I have created polls myself)and put Van Halen where that last option is(the one that currently has no band name listed). Just a suggestion.   That's no problem at all, and amazingly, Van Halen just happened to fall into the correct alphabetical position at  the tail end of the poll.